They diddled their insurance company by making a false claim.

他们通过提出虚假索赔来诈骗保险公司。

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He can claim to have been defeated by opponents copying his own tactics.

他可能会宣称他已经被模仿他策略的对手打败了。

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Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero's claim that one should "criticize by creation, not by finding fault."

普鲁塔克的建议略有不同，这一建议与马库斯·西塞罗的主张更为接近，即一个人应该“通过创作而非吹毛求疵来进行批判”。

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Farmers coming west would claim grassland used by the cattle growers.

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The best explanation of that behavior is to be found by claiming that at some level, at some fundamental level,we don't really believe what we claim to believe.

对那种行为最好的说明就是口头上相信，但在某种根本的程度上，我们并不相信它。

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Similarly, the so-called five books of Moses--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,Numbers, Deuteronomy, nowhere claim to have been written in their entirety by Moses.

同样地，所谓的摩西五经--《创世纪》,《出埃及记》《利未记》《民数记》《申命记》,无法被证实全部是摩西所写。

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The American administrators are taking a third way between a claim-by-claim approach (thorough but laborious) and treating all creditors alike (quicker but unfair to some).

ECONOMIST: Lehman, two years on

Though he faces no public allegation of personal wrongdoing, Mr Yushchenko's first denials that any unorthodox methods had been used, followed by a claim that underlings had run the scheme without his knowledge and then by repeated delays in publishing a detailed audit of the bank's dealings in the period concerned, have all damaged his standing.

ECONOMIST: Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine��s faint hope

But now he is incensed by the claim in a BBC report that some of that money may have been siphoned off to buy arms by rebels fighting Ethiopian government.

BBC: Bob Geldof denies that any Band Aid money funded arms